Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.
There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen.
Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
